Drop

Once I was a big drop of water.

I was in the desert.

I was in high,

Was in high demand.

Saw you turn, saw you turn, turn away.

Water came down, hit the dry ground.

Lost all the facts, slipped through the cracks.

Spread around,

Under and down.

Down through the ground

Carry on, now beyond

Past where all the dancing rain like thunder

After laughter and the music did resound

To where the thunder became something

Like the pulsing of the flowers

Which is something like but the nothing like

the pulsing of the hours.

But the hour was on time because I sipped into a flower

Recalled the time to climb the vine,

A honeysuckle tower.

I was water brought to lifted leaves

Of daffodils and day lillies.

Drank into the grace of trees

The aspen's eye the willows weep.

It hung so low

It touched below

The surface of

A still puddle.

Did I behold

Reflection told

Looking back at me

The eyes of my body.

So I jumped in

Back into my skin

And sang this song

Of where I'd been.

Once I was a big drop of water.

I spread around and became part of many living in the land.

Saw you turn when I turned, turned away.

In the still, in the still water.

And we're still water.